By Avery Teeple, contributing writer, St. Bonaventure women’s lacrosse
My senior year has not been what I was expecting it to be.
My team got off to a great start, going 5-2. This is the best record I have ever had in my four years at St. Bonaventure University. How could this happen? What is even going on?
This past week our season was cancelled by the Atlantic 10 Conference due to the coronavirus pandemic. I was never expecting this. I never would have thought that this would happen to MY team, but it did.
It is difficult to put into words how my teammates and I are feeling, especially my fellow seniors. It is heartbreaking. Heartbreak is definitely the only word that comes to mind when I think about this whole situation.
But what was done had to be done. With the Atlantic 10 Conference cancelling our season, it wasn’t out of spite. They were following in the footsteps of many other collegiate conferences, and the NCAA cancelled all of its remaining championships. They were doing it for the health and safety of all student-athletes and all Americans.
Hearing the news didn’t even seem real. I kept thinking that it was all a dream, that we were going to get to play our game against Butler on March 14. This year was a different year for me. I had a different role than usual. Because I had so many surgeries in the past, my surgeon had come to a decision that it was time to hang up the cleats and put lacrosse away for good.
This season, I served as a student coach. Even though I wasn’t out on the field with my teammates, I am still a senior who lost my season. I lost the experiences with my teammates. I lost the away games. I lost the home games. I lost the bus trips. I lost senior night. I lost the conference season.
But, I will always have my Bonaventure family and my teammates.
teeplea16@bonaventure.edu
